Health Care Information

Advance Directive
As a competent adult, you have the right to control decisions about your own health care.  You have the right to accept or to refuse any treatment, service, or procedure.  There may come a time when, due to your mental or physical condition, you may be unable to make your own health care decisions.  Then your healthcare providers will look to any prior written advance directives or to family members to make decisions on your behalf.  By creating a "Health care Directive" in advance, you can make sure that your wishes are communicated regarding health care decisions.  In an Advance Directive you can also designate the person that you would like making decisions for you, if for any reason you cannot make or communicate your wishes yourself.

Talking about our wishes for health care if we are unable to do so for ourselves is not just for older people or someone who is near death.  Critical accidents or severe strokes, as examples, may diminish your ability to make or communicate decisions at any age.  Take time now to think about your health care wishes and take time to fill out a health care directive document. 

Click on the link below for a Health Care Directive form.  For help in completing this form or for any other information regarding Advance Directives, please contact Pat Larson, Licensed Social Worker at Garrison Memorial Hospital at (701) 463-6532.

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